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Feb 02, 2009 11:06

My last post was in reference to a place called TechShop, which, along with other places such as NYC Resistor and The Sawdust Shop, are refered to by some as hacker spaces. A hacker space is basically a publicly available repository of equipment and knowledge, to be used to work either individually or collaboratively on projects that may not be ( Read more... )

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the choir preaches back postrodent February 2 2009, 16:36:56 UTC

Hi, and yeah, what you said. This post hits most of the high points that were on my mind when I decided to start messing with electronics, build myself a fabber and if possible do some vegetable gardening. We can't know everything about the technologies and systems that make modern life possible, but there's no reason why we have to be quite so ignorant as we are now. Not so long ago, much of what a household used and consumed was created in that household, from food to furniture ( ... )

Re: the choir preaches back silverbrand February 2 2009, 16:39:41 UTC

You just inspired a story that I wish to now write. Wow. Totally need to write an outline on this.

Re: the choir preaches back postrodent February 2 2009, 16:57:39 UTC

Don't credit me, I'm just Stealing from the Best(tm). Some of this is coming from places like Worldchanging, which want to shift humanity into a more sustainable mode of production, and a lot of it is coming from John Robb's "resilient community" concepts. Worldchanging wants to save the Earth; Robb is a 4th generation warfare theorist who says, basically, that states are disintegrating and that the supply chains that the modern economy depends upon are extremely brittle, highly vulnerable to systempunkt attacks by global guerillas, and basically indefensible (in the military sense). So... there's a kind of pressing _need_ for a new mode of production, as these people see it. :)

Re: the choir preaches back silverbrand February 2 2009, 16:58:46 UTC

Actually, the idea I had has nothing to do with anything you just said. It was a tiny tiny little detail in your first comment.

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bull22 February 2 2009, 22:33:18 UTC

Hey. Just saying hi. Been MIA a while due to, well, life sucking and my own anti-social tendancies. But wanted to say thanks for things.

silverbrand February 3 2009, 02:59:39 UTC

I got your voicemail, but I was asleep at the time, obviously. Kinda figured you were avoiding the world, yes, so generally gave you your space.